Objective

The objective of this report is to update and display the latest version of our spatial data from which we are collecting water quality and availability data across the relevant watersheds of our selected saline lakes in the Great Basin Desert.

Defining our geospatial features






Data source table

Feature Source/Database Notes
Water bodies National Hydrological Dataset - high res - water body attributes The nhdplusTools R package was used to collect this data. Carson sink was manually drawn and appended to the lakes geospatial file
HUC boundaries National Hydrological Dataset - high res - HUC6,8,10,12 The nhdplusTools R package was used to collect this data
Flowlines National Hydrological Dataset - medium res - NHDFLowlines The nhdplusTools R package was used to collect this data
Gage sites NWIS The NWIS dataRetrieval R package was used to collect these site
water measurements NWIS The NWIS dataRetrieval R package was used to collect these data metrics